On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 18:05 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Stephen Walton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:25 -0500, Peter Volsted wrote:
> >
> >>hi
> >>
> >> > Don Dupy wrote:
> >>
> >>>Has anyone done an upgrade from FC1 > FC3 ?
> >>
> >>I did without any problems a month ago.
> >
> >
> > A handy hint: after an upgrade like this, do 'rpm -qa --last > rpmlist'
> > and look at the bottom of the list. You'll probably find a whole bunch
> > of obsolete packages which you can safely remove.
>
> Also the start of /root/upgrade.log may have a list of packages that have
> broken dependencies and should probably be removed (you probably won't get
> this if you don't use any "unofficial" packages). It's always worth looking
> through this file after an upgrade to look for mentions of changed
> configuration files (.rpmnew or .rpmsave) that need looking at anyway.
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probably not a bad idea
I also liked the rpm -qa --last > rpmlist
The aid I previously used was
rpm -qa --qf "%{INSTALLTIME} %{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE}\n" | sort \
-r > RPMS_by_Install_Time
Check for anything in the output file after "basesystem". These are
probably obsolete packages left from before the upgrade. Blow them away
(suggest using "yum remove <package>" or "apt-get remove <package>" to
handle dependencies)
Craig
